Wander (1974 video game)
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Wander is text adventure written by Peter Langston in 1974. It is one of the earliest text adventure video games in existence, predating Colossal Cave Adventure.[1] The game was originally coded in BASIC[2] on a mainframe computer with multiple databases to create the worlds that formed the game.[3] It was distributed in Langston's PSL Games collection for Unix.[4]
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Designer(s) | Peter Langston |
Platform(s) | Mainframe |
Release | 1974 |
Genre(s) | Interactive fiction |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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For a long time, the original files had been kept in an archived email by one of Langston's friends. The files now exist on GitHub.[5]